WavRead 1.2.1 — Mix history, mono switch, update checks
Two playback fixes, and three ways to hear more of your mix.
Fixed
- "Hear the difference" did nothing until you pressed Play. The button sat disabled while the track was stopped, so the first thing anyone tries — open Mix, press it — had no effect, and the feature looked broken. Pressing it is asking to hear the suggestion, so it now starts playback itself. The Play button still starts flat.
- "Play this section" played from the section, not the section. It seeked to the section start and then ran on through the rest of the track unless Loop happened to be on. It now stops at the section end, and the seek waits for the audio's metadata so a cold page no longer starts at 0:00.
New
- Mono fold-down — a Mono switch sums playback to (L+R)/2 in both channels, so the mono-compatibility findings can be heard: correlated material keeps its level and anything that cancels audibly disappears. It composes with the EQ demo, and neither interrupts playback.
- Skip back and forward — ten seconds either way on the transport.
- Mix history — group mixes of one song as ordered versions, keep a note on each, and see the measured headline values with the change from the version before. Grouping is explicit: WavRead never merges tracks because their filenames look alike. A value missing from an older analysis reads as unavailable, not as a change.
- Update checks — WavRead tells you when a newer version exists and stops there. It never downloads or installs. One request to the public release page, nothing sent about you, silent when offline, at most once a day, and a Settings switch that means no request is ever made.
Grouping and notes are stored outside the analyses, like listening markers, so reanalysis cannot destroy them.
Free during development, still unsigned (right-click → Open on first launch). Analyses made under the app's former name, SoundScribe, keep working.